Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-04-15

through the window, and as his gaze
was returning to the fire it rested for
a moment on the patient pallid-faced
girl. ,.
She was undoubtedly i'll, and he
ty and he admired her. But the low
type OF face, with narrow sloping fore
head. the furtive eyes, and the weak
willed mouth and chin, told her char
acter so Enthusiastically that an idea
suggested itself to him which he well
coined with delight. A fig for his re-
solves! Here was g. way out of his
dihicultiesr'
"What is the time of your daugh-
ter's attat k?"
''The fit will come to her at eleven"
IL will cure her!"
'Vhou! Art thou aphysician?'
II have studied with the wisest
where wisdom dwells. Let your daugn-
ter do as I direct, and the ague will de-
part from her"
cart thou willing, Jess?" asked the
mother.
The girl turned her head, but the
strangers eyes were on her, and she
whispered YES.
Then will 90 back in a briefspace.
go to seek some potent herbs under
the rays OF the young MOON"
The student went out laughing to
himself at his new device, and think
ing over the part he was to play. He
walked down the garden, jumped the
palings, crossed the meadow, and fol-
lowed for q time the bank OF the
stream, whose ripples cleaned with
the silver sprinkles from the moon.
A leaf OF herbrobe1t he took, then a
small coltstoot and Jack-sauce- by the
hedge, then four-leaved paris and a
twig OF broom. Then he returned to
the kitchen, blocking unutterable
things" and laid his leaves on the
table, the coltsfoot at one end, and
the herb-robert at the other, the scorpi-
on grass and dog 's3mercurv in the mid
die, with the broom next to the paris.
Then he put the leaves in cup and
rubbed them together for a time,
whispering to himselfso as to be heard
by the invalid:
Eta, zeta, theta, phi; kappa, delta,
lambda. pi; sigma, gamma, beta, mu;
alpha, tau, epsilon, nu; psi, chi, upsi-
lon, sho; kyklopedeia may the ague
go!"
Then he opened the window that
the moon might shine in the cup, and
he took out some OF the leaves and
rolled them in a strip of parchment
about the size Of a. cigarette paper,
which he cut from his pocket book.
Then he tied the roll with a silken
string and sealed it, but he did not use
his own seal, for he pressed on the
wax leaf of scorpion grass which he
had accidentally dropped on the floor.
"a piece OF ribbon" he said to the
hostess-the first words he had ad-
dressed to her since he entered with
the Newsstand pen and ink" and
while she was gone he emptied the cup
on the fire.
TO each end of his tiny cylinder he
tied a piece OF ribbon, and with the
pen and ink he scrawled on the parch-
ment the Greek letters in his remark
able charm, repeating the words as he
did so.
"Now give me thy wrist" he said to
the girl; and as he knotted the ribbon
his eyes searched into hers and seemed
to look through them down every
nerve in her body.
"Wear that" he said, AS he finished
the knot, land the sickness will never
return to you. Rest and fear not.
Farewell till the dawn!'
And in great gandeur he stalked off |
to bed. A thing is not worth doing
at all if it is not worth doing we'll, and |
this our student knew. TO havesta
ed and watched for the result OF his !
audacious piece OF foolery would have
been too severe trial for him. So he !
went to bed and laughed; and then |
somehow the laughter thinned away,
And he was just beginning to reproach |
himself when he dropped off to sleep. |
In the morning there came knock
ing at his door.
"Who's there?"
1T is long past dawn" said the
hostess.
"What you want?"
my daughter had never fit last
Nor will she have again. TITS WE'LL"
said the stranger, as impresslvely as !
he could manage.
When he came down he found the |
breakfast ready.
II desire no breakfast" he said. II
connot pay YOU"
"Pay mel" said the hostess. "You
have given me my daughters life, and !
it is / who should pay you. You are
welcome to all you have had and all |
you can take now"
The charm had had it's effect. The |
girls nervous nature had yielded to
the mans stronger will, and the ague
had been defeated. And, what is |
more, the sickness did not return to |
her.
1he student miracle-worker there
fore finished his breakfast, and with |
profuse thanks from the mother and |
child, rode away. He never saw the
widow again. But from the moment |
he caught the last glimpse OF her out in
the road at the end OF the avenue of |
elms, whose limpy hanging leaves we're
trembling to fall, he dated new life. |
He returned to college to work. In
February, 1868, he was called to the |
bar, and rose quickly into notice as q |
frst-rate lawyer and successful advo-
cate. He became Recorder of Lon |
don, to be removed from his Office by |
James II. for his opposition to the
court measures; end when William
III. sought the fittest man to purify |
the bench and make thelaw respected,
he chose for the lord chief justiceship
of England the curer of the landlady's
daughter, Sir John Holt. |
How he fulfilled his duties during
the twenty one years he held his posi-.
ton we can leave To Macaillav and